Rare and Distinctive Collections

  • Students Adán García, Ashly Villa-Ortega, and Amairany Casillas-Alcala were the leading curators for the exhibit.
    Over 50 people connected to UMAS y MEXA de CU Boulder turned out to Norlin Library for the panel exhibit and reception celebrating the student group’s dynamic history. UMAS’ mission is to empower Latinx through education and activism. Amairany
  • Students setting up the UMAS exhibit
    The University Libraries are proud to host a panel exhibit celebrating 50 years of UMAS y MEXA de CU Boulder in the Ventana Gallery on the 3rd floor of Norlin Library. On March 20 at 4 p.m., the CU Boulder community is invited to an
  • A guide to Oddy tests hangs on the wall of a LOC wall.
    The University of Colorado Boulder Libraries are participating in a grant program through the Library of Congress (LOC) that is bringing together five academic libraries to compare the physical condition of similar books retained and
  • Leones Glacier, Aysén, Chile, December 1, 2011, Photograph by Christoph Strassler.
    After two years, a dedicated group of University Libraries faculty, staff, and students partnered with the National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC) to digitize approximately 9,000 glacial photos from the Roger G. Barry Archives with help from grant
  • Norlin Stacks
    The University of Colorado Boulder is part of a major national effort to assess the physical health of books across American research libraries. The Library of Congress is spearheading the initiative, thanks to a $540,000 grant from The Andrew
  • Poetic Table of Elements
    Imagine engineering students writing poetry. "It’s almost a paradox," says Danny Long, an instructor in the Program for Writing and Rhetoric at CU Boulder. Long's Radical Science Writing course challenges upper-division science
  • Inside inscription by MLK Jr. to his parents
    Today we honor the life and legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., whose powerful writings and speeches denounced the brutal injustices of racial segregation, while also inculcating a sense of hope and moral responsibility that each of us has in
  • Photo courtesy of Professor David E. Fishman of books rescued by Jewish inmates during the Holocaust
    CU Boulder’s Program in Jewish Studies and cosponsors will honor International Holocaust Remembrance Day, Jan. 27, with a free public lecture by visiting scholar David E. Fishman, professor of history at the Jewish Theological
  • Jared Polis
    Gov.-elect Jared Polis will archive his congressional papers in the CU Boulder Libraries Special Collections, Archives and Preservation department. The donation will make Polis’ archived website and social media available for the public in
  • A sampling of works entering the public domain in 2019
    For the first time in over twenty years, we will see an abundance of creative works pass into the public domain. On January 1, 2019, a wealth of literature, art, music, movies, and other creative works that had an authorized copyright in 1923 will
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